Small-Sample Results for the Kaplan-Meier Estimator
作者:
Y.Y. Chen,
M. Hollander,
N.A. Langberg,
期刊:
Journal of the American Statistical Association
(Taylor Available online 1982)
卷期:
Volume 77,
issue 377
页码: 141-144
ISSN:0162-1459
年代: 1982
DOI:10.1080/01621459.1982.10477777
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Censoring;Incomplete data;Kaplan-Meier estimator;Proportional hazards
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Whereas much is known about the asymptotic properties of the Kaplan-Meier (1958) estimator (KME) of a survival function, exact results for small samples have been difficult to obtain. In this article, we obtain an exact expression for the αth moment (α > 0) of the KME under a model of proportional hazards. This enables us, under proportional hazards, to (a) study the bias of the KME, and (b) compare the exact variance of the KME to its asymptotic variance.
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